First Person

First Person

First-person experiences of WW1, taken from letters, diaries, personal albums, oral history, memoir, poetry, and more.

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  • Profile picture for Philip Edward Thomas

    Born 1878

    Died 1917

    British Army 4229 Corporal London Regiment

    British Army Royal Garrison Artillery

    British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery

  • Profile picture for Robert Ernest Vernede

    Born 1875

    Died 1917

    British Army Second Lieutenant Rifle Brigade

  • Born 1866

    Died 1918

    British Army Canteen Worker Voluntary Aid Detachment Depot d'Eclopes

  • Profile picture for Ernest Beachcroft Beckwith Towse

    Born 1864

    Died 1948

    British Army Captain Royal Army Medical Corps

    British Army Captain Gordon Highlanders 3rd seaforth highland Battalion

    British Army RAMC

  • Born 1899

    Died 1991

    Other Empire Force Munitions Worker Woolwich Arsenal

  • Profile picture for Winifred Mordaunt

    Born 1891

    Other Empire Force 12 Serjeant First Aid Nursing Yeomanry

    Other Empire Force 12 Trooper First Aid Nursing Yeomanry

    Other Empire Force Chauffeuse First Aid Nursing Yeomanry

  • Born 1894

    Other Empire Force Munitions Worker Ministry of Munitions - Barnbow

  • Profile picture for Edith Elizabeth Appleton, Rrc

    Born 1877

    Died 1958

    British Army Sister Civil Hospital Reserve General Hospital

    British Army Staff Nurse Civil Hospital Reserve General Hospital

    British Army Staff Nurse 14 General Hospital

  • Profile picture for Richard Aka Edward Godfree Aldington

    Born 1892

    Died 1962

    British Army 36179 Private Leicestershire Regiment 11th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Stephen Henry Royce Jarrett

    Born 1892

    Canadian Expeditionary Force 503168

    Canadian Expeditionary Force 503168 Private 4th Divisional Signal Company C.E

  • Born 1895

    Died 1990

    Other Empire Force Munitions Worker George Bray and Company

  • Profile picture for Caroline Rennles

    Born 1899

    Died 1985

    Other Empire Force Munitions Worker Slade Green munitions factory

    Other Empire Force Munitions Worker Woolwich Arsenal

  • Born 1895

    Died 1917

    Canadian Expeditionary Force 675928

    Canadian Expeditionary Force 675928 Private Canadian Infantry

  • Born 1898

    Died 1993

    Other Empire Force Munitions Worker Rawlins munitions factory

    Other Empire Force Waitress American Officers' Club

  • Profile picture for Isabelle Dorothy Joyce Dennys Now Evans

    Born 1893

    Died 1991

    Other Empire Force VAD British Red Cross Budleigh Salterton V.A. Hospital

    Other Empire Force VAD British Red Cross No 2 Military Hospital, Exeter

    Other Empire Force VAD British Red Cross Devonshire House

  • Profile picture for Vera Mary Brittain

    Born 1893

    Died 1970

    Other Empire Force V.A.D. Voluntary Aid Detachment

  • Born 1884

    Died 1977

    Other Empire Force War Correspondent

  • Born 1875

    Died 1918

    British Army 6908 Company Serjeant Major Gordon Highlanders

    British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Fusiliers

    British Army Captain Royal Fusiliers 23rd (service) bn. royal fusiliers (1st Battalion

  • Profile picture for Angela Selina Bianca Forbes

    Born 1876

    Died 1950

    Other Empire Force Head British Soldiers' Buffets

  • Profile picture for Norman Everard Brookes

    Born 1878

    Died 1968

    British Army British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem

    British Army Lieutenant Colonel General List